promoted by Nicolae Ceauşescu's regime. Despite being a sympathiser of the Iron Guard, Drăgan became a semi-official collaborator of Ceaușescu and the Communist regime, and as a result, he had access to some documents never published before on Ion Antonescu, using them in a four-volume book, which put Antonescu, a man who has been sentenced to death for war crimes and executed, in a good light. According to historian Lucian Boia, Drăgan promoted an extreme version of protochronism, which claimed that the Romania was the cradle of civilization, and the Romanian people the oldest in Europe: After 1989 After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, it was alleged that he supported financially Eugen Barbu and Corneliu Vadim Tudor to launch their far right România Mare newspaper. Nevertheless, in 2008, Vadim denied that he got any funding from Drăgan. Together with Vadim Tudor, Drăgan was the founder of "Liga Mareșal Ion Antonescu" in 1990, later renamed to "Liga Mareșalilor" following the changes in the Romanian legislation which disallowed the praise of the pro-Nazi dictator. Death Drăgan died on August 21, 2008, at his house in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Private life After his first wife, Teresa Maria Moriglioni, died in 1986, Drăgan married, at the age of 78, Daniela Veronica Gușă, aged 22 at the time, the daughter of Ştefan Guşă, a Romanian Army general involved in the attempted repression of the 1989 revolution who died of cancer in 1994. Together they had three sons. Mike Fink (b. 1970), who claims to be Drăgan's son, announced, in 2005, that he had not been able to contact his father in the previous three years. Ziua reached the conclusion that Drăgan was being held captive by his younger wife and his business partners. However, he was seen dining in a restaurant only a few days later in Bucharest, together with his wife. See also Capital Top 300 wealthiest men in Romania References 1917 births 2008 deaths People from Lugoj Socialist Republic of Romania 20th-century Romanian businesspeople Romanian essayists Members of the Iron Guard 20th-century Romanian politicians Romanian fascists Romanian Greek-Catholics Romanian journalists Romanian memoirists Romanian newspaper founders Romanian philanthropists University of Bucharest alumni Romanian emigrants to Italy 20th-century Romanian historians 20th-century essayists 20th-century philanthropists 20th-century Italian businesspeople 20th-century journalists 20th-century memoirists